An so Burn Notice ends

I was wrong about, well, many things, but probably the only relevant one was that the episode was only an hour. However, it was the most intense, most...emotional hour in TV that I've had in, well, years. I'd like to share my thoughts on it, so I'm writing this raw, right after finishing it.

Spoilers ahead, you stand warned.

I have to say the biggest, hardest moment for me death of Madeline Westen. I admit that, before I watched the episode, I thought Michael was going to bite it, right up until the night before when I thought that they could kill Maddie and set Michael up as his nephew's new caregiver. I went back to thinking Michael, who had an obvious deathwish would be the one until Maddie talked about the C4 without a remote detonator. Wow, I'm still taking that hard.

The second big moment was James Kendrick trying to take Michael down with him. The keyword here, as you know if you watched the show, was trying. The fact that he did survive somehow just makes all the harder on me. What will he say to Charlie when he's old enough? How will he live his life now?

And, of course, what of Jesse and Sam? They're both free, and able to do as they did before, but what now? I sense a spinoff, but what if it never materializes?

All in all, the end was very bittersweet, though I'm not sure if the emphasis belongs on the bitter or the sweet. All I can say is the story is over, and now...I don't know.